Events archive
Nissan Seminar
Professor Gert-Jan Hospers, Radboud University, University of Twente, Mr Pier Giorgio Oliveti, General Secretariat, Cittaslow International, Ms Heuishilja Chang, PhD student, University of Oxford, Professor Hirokazu Sakuno, Shimane University, Dr Peter Matanle, University of Sheffield, Dr Taro Hirai, Hirosaki University
10 March 2016 - 9:30am to 4:45pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Cittaslow (Slow City) is a rural development movement of small towns started in Italy in 1999. The movement aims to improve their quality of life and sustainability by emphasizing the individual... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Philip Grover, Assistant Curator, Photograph and Manuscript Collections Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
4 December 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Meiji-Era Photographs in the Pitt Rivers Museum: An Overview of the Collections
Nissan Seminar
Dr Chris Harding (University of Edinburgh)
27 November 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Japan’s Freud: Kosawa Heisaku and Buddhist Modernism
Nissan Seminar
Hideki Asari (Minister, Director of the Japan Information and Cultural Centre (JICC), London), Machiko Osawa (Professor of Economics, Director of Research Institute for Women and Careers, Japan Women’s University), Hiroshi Shiratori (Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Director of Policy Science Institute, Hosei University), Masanobu Ido (Professor of Political Science, Waseda University), Nanako Fujita (Associate Professor of Economics, Nagoya City University), Hideko Magara (Professor of Political Science, Waseda University)
25 November 2015 - 10:00am to 12:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
This seminar is supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) #25245023.
Nissan Seminar
Professor Yuma Totani (University of Hawaii)
20 November 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
The Burma-Siam Death Railway and the British War Crimes Trials at Singapore
Nissan Seminar
Dr. Chika Watanabe (University of Manchester)
13 November 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Muddy Labor: Nonreligion and the Making of Persons as Aid Work
Nissan Seminar
Dr Heath Rose (University of Oxford)
6 November 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Dilemmas of learning of Japanese as a foreign language and English as an international language: perspectives from applied linguistics research
Nissan Seminar
Professor Carol Gluck (Columbia University)
30 October 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Future Past Entanglements: Modern Japan and the Work of History
Nissan Seminar
Professor Susan Townsend (University of Nottingham)
22 October 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Syndicate Room, The Old Main Building, St. Antony’s College
Automobility and the Urban Environment: Japan in the Mai-kaa Era
Nissan Seminar
Professor Ron Loftus (Williamette University)
16 October 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford,
Taoka Reiun (1870-1912) and the Turn Against the Modern
Nissan Seminar
Dr Hiroaki Watanabe (University of Sheffield), Dr Ayumi Takenaka (University of Oxford), Professor Yuji Genda (University of Tokyo), Professor Richard Freeman (Harvard University)
16 June 2015 - 2:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building and the Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Memorial Event to Commemorate the Work and Influence of Dr Mark Rebick (Nissan Lecturer in the Japanese Economy and Fellow of St Antony’s College, 1994-2012) PLACES ARE STILL AVAILABLE. The event is... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Dr Chigusa Yamaura, Research Associate, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Oxford
22 May 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Locating Marriageable Communities: Cross-Border Matchmaking between Japan and Northeast China
Nissan Seminar
Professor Takehiko Kariya, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Oxford
15 May 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
The Lost Decades in Japan’s Education Policy: Impacts of the narrative of “playing catch-up with the West”
Nissan Seminar
Professor Florian Coulmas, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany and former director of the German Institute of Japanese Studies
8 May 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Time and Culture
Nissan Seminar
Clare Weaver, Deputy General Manager, Legal and Compliance Departments, Mitsui & Co Europe Plc
1 May 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
“Mitsui is People”: Mitsui & Co., Ltd in the 21st Century